10:42 PM,
Jul. 11, 2013

Gas prices have risen by 4 cents the past week to a national average of $3.52 a gallon, partly because of rising crude oil prices.

Written by

Gary Strauss
| USA Today

Rising crude oil prices and a fall in U.S. supplies are driving wholesale gas prices up sharply. That has yet to be fully reflected at the retail level.

Prices at the pump - up 4 cents the past week to a national average of $3.52 a gallon - could climb an additional 15 cents or higher over the next two weeks. A year ago, the national average was $3.38.

"It's getting ugly," says Patrick DeHaan, senior analyst for gasbuddy.com. "First and foremost, the political problems in Egypt are driving crude oil prices, but there has also been a sharp drop in oil supplies the past two weeks. This is coming at a time ...